"Devil Lord who slumbered since ancient times, this world needs Your guidance. Revive the glory of our demonic path, let the demonic path once again..."
A group of black-clad people gathered amid a sprawling mountain range, where numerous formations had been arranged. Many people stood atop the formations, dressed in peculiar garments, muttering incantations as though summoning something, or perhaps conducting a sacrifice, as if calling forth that ancient existence.
As the sacrificial chants ended, streams of pitch-black aura merged into the void, their destination impossible to discern.
"This Lord has finally awakened!"
"Eh? What has happened to this world? Why has the aura of the Divine Vein vanished?"
"This Lord was sealed for so many years and has only just awakened from slumber. How has the cultivation environment of this world changed as well?"
"How has the Hengyuan Divine Vein disappeared too?"
"Could it be that a Great Divine Power User has already achieved Transcendence into eternity?"
Within the Southern Wasteland ruins, a certain ancient existence awakened from its seal. Its speech was exceedingly complex and archaic, its voice filled with bewilderment, as though it could not understand what had happened.
"Source of faith, extract, devour!"
The existence in the darkness fixed its gaze upon the pitch-black power of faith before it. With a slight movement of thought, it devoured it all.
The information it wished to know instantly flowed from the power of faith, allowing it to learn what had happened during the years of its imprisonment.
Though the information was incomplete, it was enough to grasp the general picture.
"The Hengyuan Divine Vein was actually destroyed by a True God?"
"No, the Hengyuan Divine Vein concerns the path to eternity. It could not have been destroyed. It must have scattered throughout the Taiyu Divine Continent."
"When the